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| | CNN - Nabokov - The Man |
 | | At the highly regarded Tenishev School, which Nabokov began attending in 1911, he was described as an aloof, even conceited, student who arrived each day in the family's Rolls-Royce. |
 | | As Nabokov's writing career slowly took form in the 1930s, he and Vèra moved from Berlin (again, for political reasons, as the Nazis grew in force) to Paris, before fleeing the war-torn City of Light for New York in 1940, with their son, |
 | | At this point Nabokov, at 41, had generated some buzz in the book industry, but he had yet to reach an English-speaking audience and was far from the acclaim he would attain. |
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